Quotes by Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around.

Feels

Ifs

Should

If you’re not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

Chance

Thinking

Want

It takes awareness that it’s not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

Facts

Interesting

Way

Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.

Children

Live In The Moment

Meaningful

Make sure you have legal cover for what you’re doing.

Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you’re doing or undoing something.

Easy

Moving

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

Companion

Matter

No Matter What

Of course the thoughts and awareness are there, but it’s all incomplete and often fanciful – kids know there’s something to know, and they fill in a bunch of the blanks with their imaginations if their parents haven’t had the conversations and/or established themselves as sources of information. It’s rare that the kids know nothing at all, and the somethings they do know are often only partially right or flat-out wrong.

Imagination

Kids

Parent

One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won’t “win,” you won’t change anyone’s mind, you won’t change any votes, you won’t make the atmosphere in the room any better, YOU won’t feel any better.

Atmosphere

Mind

Winning

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don’t commit you to anything yet.

Decision

Tough

Tough Decisions

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Adults

Answers

Atmosphere

Awkwardness

Baby

Believe

Bored

Chance

Children

Choices

Companion

Couple

Decision

Differences

Different

Doubt

Earth

Easy

Expectations

Facts

Failing

Fans

Feelings

Feels

Filling In

Focus

Frustration

Girl

Giving

Guilt

Hate

Hiding

Home

Ifs

Imagination

Innocence

Interesting

Jobs

Kids

Live In The Moment

Lonely

Long

Lying

Matter

Mean

Meaningful

Mind

Miserable

Moving

Needs

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Quotes by Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax

If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around.

If you’re not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

It takes awareness that it’s not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.

Make sure you have legal cover for what you’re doing.

Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you’re doing or undoing something.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won’t “win,” you won’t change anyone’s mind, you won’t change any votes, you won’t make the atmosphere in the room any better, YOU won’t feel any better.

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don’t commit you to anything yet.

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